Our third workshop took place at UCL in February 2020 and centred on museums and curating representations of "Violence Elsewhere".

The workshop’s focus on Curating "Violence Elsewhere" stimulated discussions around the ethics of representing conflict and violence in a museum setting, the role of empathy as a strategy for engaging visitors, and the value and/or limitations of immersive spaces that seek to evoke the affective and experiential.

On day one, the group visited the Imperial War Museum, accompanied by Silke Arnold-de Simine (University of Exeter) and Chloe Paver (Birkbeck, University of London), both of whom work on museums and memory.

On day two, there was a group discussion of the reading, followed by paper presentations from Silke and Chloe.

See below for this workshop’s reading and paper abstracts.

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Competing Masculinities in the Museum Space: Terrorists, Machines and the Mangled Metal’, in Koureas and Malvern (eds), Terrorist Transgressions: Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist (2014).

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Selective Empathy in the Re-designed Imperial War Museum London: Heroes and Perpetrators’, in Bielby and Murer (eds), Perpetrating Selves: Doing Violence, Performing Identity (2018).

Gorch Pieken, ‘Contents and Space: New Concept and New Building of the Militärhistorisches Museum of the Bundeswehr’, in Muchitsch (ed), Does War Belong in Museums? (2013).

Thomas Thiemeyer, ‘Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German Museums’, in Echternkamp and Jaeger (eds), Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials (2019).